Growing the economy has never been more important than in these challenging times. To support this growth, the government recently announced support to help provide an additional 50,000 apprenticeship places, which means there has never been a better time to bring apprentices into your workforce.

We recently hosted a joint event with the Apprenticeship Ambassadors Network (AAN) in our Broadway House offices in London to help provide attendees with practical advice and examples of how apprenticeships could help their business.

Attendees heard from Skills Minister, John Hayes MP (below) who has overall cabinet responsibility for apprenticeship policy as he talked about the government’s plans for its apprentice support.

Also featured was an inspiring presentation from Bentley Motors’ Christine Gaskell(video below), a Member of the Board for Personnel who highlighted Bentley’s very successful apprenticeship story and the benefits the company enjoys as a result.

Attendees also had the opportunity to meet and network with other companies and representatives from local colleges as well as the opportunity to learn first-hand from EEF Apprentices and Skills representatives and other industry experts such as Sir Roy Gardner, Chairman of the AAN (video below) about some of the practical implications of taking on apprentices.

To download a copy of the presentations from this event and other useful handouts,  click here.